the extract of malt in the manufacture of gin. It may be used still in some qualities of gin. (See Dutch Courage.)

Geneva Doctrines Calvinism. Calvin, in 1541, was invited to take up his residence in Geneva as the public teacher of theology. From this period Geneva was for many years the centre of education for the Protestant youths of Europe.

Geneva Print (Reading). Drinking gin or whisky.

" `Why, John,' said the veteran, `what a discipline is this you have been keeping? You have been reading Geneva print this morning already.' `I have been reading the Litany,' said John. shaking his head, with a look of drunken gravity." - Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xi.

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